Figured it would be better to have a separate topic instead of discussing in the novel thread :) thanks to @paulnamida for bringing it up first! Also I was totally planning to add that image but you beat me to it D;

@myskaros Haha well you posted the topic less than a minute before I was going to do the same, so I wanted to add something you didn't XD
Also, it's a shame they didn't get the official English title in that key visual.

Depending on how well SAO:Alicization and Shield Hero do, that may open the door to a Mushoku Tensei adaptation. The big issue though is that it's not a series well suited to 12 or even 24 episodes. Long adventure format series run a high risk of getting butchered to hell and back if the staff is crap.

Would love to see a second season of Rokujouma, but not holding my breath.Even though the first season was given a very nice review as an older series recently, I just don't see it happening. Our just seems to me that all of the long-running series are all shounen. (Did I spell that right?)

@aruseus493 IMO, it could work well on a 24 episode format, adapting vols. 1 through 6, having the finale as Rudeus' party gets back to their country and everyone goes their separate ways. The Hitogami hasn't even been mentioned prior to that point so it wouldn't feel like a random plotline that didn't go anywhere, and a few glimpses of what's become of Sylphiette here and there would be enough to not make her seem as a forgotten character but also get some hype for a second season.

@G I actually watched the Anime first & that's what made me buy the books (well before the season was over too) so I got a pleasant surprise about how much better the story was rather than the disappointment everyone else got.

Again with Death March, I haven't read the LNs so there was no expectations to be let down by, so I thought it was alright. I kinda assume the LN will always be better.

I mean, generally the source material always is. Rarely you get adaptions like MHA (BNHA for weebs) that come out arguably as good as the source, or weird stuff like K-On where the anime shits on the original source, but yeah that's a bit of a hen's teeth/rocking horse crap situation.

I'm worried how Arifureta will turn out as an anime to be honest, it'll be the first time in a while I've read the LN before the anime. The first ep of the new FMP! season had me cringing a little (that awful CG right in the first scene)

I'm part of the crowd that thinks the Smartphone anime was okay. Like @smashman42 , I also saw the anime first and got interested from that.

I personally don't think Isekai Maou will be as bad as Death March. Death March's story structure is the kind that builds up and only gets good (really good IMO) in the long run. While Isekai Maou, as far as I have seen, has a simpler episodic structure.

In other words, Isekai Maou delivers its main positive points much earlier than DM, so that's why I think it won't be as bad.